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Letters .Patent No. 70,377, dated Octoer 29, 1867; antedatecl October`9, 1867.

IMPROVED FLOUR-SIFTER.

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To ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONOERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN TDEIN, of the city of Newark, in the county ofEssex, and Statey of New Jersey, have made certain improvements inFamily Flour-Sifters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a fulland exact description of the same, reference being had herein to thedrawings that accompany this specification', and which make part ofthesame.

My improvement consists in the use of rollers, and in combining themwith iiexible rubbers, so as to form a reversible stirring apparatus;also in a convenient manner of attaching the stirrer to and of removingit from the sieveor strainer. In the drawings- Figure l'is a perspectiveview of the exterior of the utensil. l v

Figure 2 is a. section showing the interior. p

Figure 3 is arview of the end of two of the arms of the supportingspider, and

Figure 4 shows the rollers and flexibles as combined, and the device forreversing.

A conical vessel, A, is provided with a wire-cloth bottom, z, fig. 2.. Aspider, B, spans the top of the vessel A, two of its arms hooking underthe wire edge of thetop, the ends of the arms being formed as shown inEg. 3. The end of the other armis bent down at right angle, and enters ahole in the handle of A, to keep the spider from turning with-therotation of the shaft X. At the middle of the spider two studs, u u,project downwards, attached at their lower ends to across-bar, inwhichis a bearing for the shaft X. The shaft X, having a spring, p, with anubor short pin thereon, at its lower extremity, is tted to a socket,S,in the hub of the stirrer C. The nnb on the springp enters the hole o,and keeps the stirrer in place. An arm, t, with the socket-hub S in themiddle, has attached thereto two rollers, r r, and two ilexible rubbers,g g, iig. 4. This arm can be placed on the shaft X, with the flexiblebeaters or the rollers down, as may be desired, the rollers being'intended for breaking the lumps in the meal during-the process ofsifting. The rollers can also be used to mash fruit, and the sieve forstraining, to make preserves. The revolving of the shaft X by means ofthe crank y willcau'se the rollers or liexibles to pass to the bottom ofthe Hour or meal, and cause the same to pass through the wire p cloth,the rollers reducing it to its needed fineness.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is--7 The reversible arm t, with the'rollers V1''fr and the exible beaters or rubbers g q, constructed and arrangedsubstantially as shown.

JOHN TOBIN.

Witnesses:

WM. M. Goonme, EDWARD CoLLvEn,

